a beautiful day in the neighborhood

kansas city has gotten alot of press lately with the opening of the new bloch building at the nelson atkins museum of art so we were excited to be there for the opening weekend.

friday night we attended a panel discussion about the role of architecture in museum expansions. afterwards, we enjoyed pizza at a favorite neighborhood spot (actually owned by our neighbor!), pizza 51.

we got in our usual saturday morning run and coffee, then headed to the nelson with our friends mickey and doug. while we were there mostly to see the building, the art collection (contemporary and african collections as well as rotating exhibitions) is also impressive. not everyone in kc loves the new building but we both think it is the perfect companion to the original building (and one of our favorite landscapes in kc!)

on our way home (we walked), we took a detour through the kauffman gardens--one of many kansas city destinations we had been wanting to visit since we moved here and enjoyed the beautiful flowers and fountain.

saturday evening was spent enjoying dinner with our neighbors scott and monica who recently built a new deck on the back of their house. we ejoyed talking with them well into the early hours on sunday morning and visited with even more neighbors on our walk back home across the street!